A Yellowknife judge has ruled that a one-year mandatory minimum jail sentence for child luring does not violate a man’s Constitutional rights. Supreme Court Judge Louise Charbonneau announced her decision in court Friday. She did not divulge her reasons for the decision but said that will come out in writing…
A Yellowknife man has been sentenced to a year in jail after an attack that left another man with a serious brain injury. Daniel Hache, 23, was handed his punishment on Tuesday in Supreme Court in Yellowknife. Court heard that he was camping with the victim and the victim’s girlfriend…
A Yellowknife judge is to release her decision Friday as to whether a one-year mandatory minimum jail sentence for child luring violates a man’s constitutional rights. Ex-Yellowknife gymnastics coach Ricky Lee Sutherland, 50, and his lawyer argued in court Monday that it would violate his rights under the Canadian Charter…
A Fort Good Hope man has abandoned his right to a trial and has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault after an attack on two people in the Sahtu community last September. Christopher Shae, 49, appeared in Supreme Court in Yellowknife Monday where he re-elected to be sentenced by judge alone…
Robin Kelly, 34, has been charged in relation to a robbery at the First Nations Bank of Canada that happened six months ago. In a news release, police explain officers responded to a call of an alleged armed robbery shortly after noon on February 13. The release says a man…
While the investigation isn’t over, Yellowknife RCMP have charged Billy McNeely and Aaron Stoodley in connection to a shooting on May 26. According to a police news release, officers responded to a call in the early hours of the morning at Grayling Manor on 53rd street in Yellowknife. Police found…
Osama Nawaz will be appearing in court in Yellowknife on Monday facing cocaine trafficking charges among others. The 19-year-old was apprehended earlier this week following an Inuvik RCMP investigation and search warrant. Police seized about one ounce of crack cocaine and more 4,000 dollars. According to RCMP, Nawaz is originally…
A former Yellowknife gymnastics coach, already convicted of sending a photo of his private parts on Snapchat to one of his gymnasts, has had a Charter of Rights and Freedoms hearing postponed. 50-year-old Ricky Lee Sutherland was a no-show in court Tuesday after his lawyer explained to the judge that Sutherland is dealing…
Louisa Lafferty, the Fort Good Hope mother of murder victim Charlotte Lafferty is planning a public grief, healing and trauma session in the fall. Her announcement comes two weeks after her daughter Charlotte Lafferty’s killer, Keenan McNeely, had his appeal of his conviction quashed by the Northwest Territories Court of…
A Yellowknife man has been sentenced to five years in jail after he was convicted of having sex with three underage girls. Joshua “Taz” Desjarlais, 27, who is originally from Fort Smith, was handed his punishment by Supreme Court Judge Shannon Smallwood this afternoon in Yellowknife. She had found him…